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Second Factor Only Authentication is currently available on the Pilot environment only. It is planned for release to production before the end of 2016.

What is Second Factor Only

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Authentication?

Second Factor Only (SFO) Authentication is an alternate SAML authentication endpoint that is offered by the SURFconext strong authentication (SA) gateway. The SFO endpoint allows a Service Provider (SP) to authenticate only the second factor of a user. This in contrast to a "standard" authentication at the SA gateway where authentication of the first factor, being the normal authentication of the user to the IdP of their home institution through SURFconext, is always performed.

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